Monster That Challenged The World, The - DVD

Alan Paton s world famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country is transformed into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you ve ever seen. Gilded by Kurt Weill s (The Threepenny Opera) powerful music and lucid lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, and guided by Daniel Mann s (Playing for Time) sensitive direction, this one-of-a-kind film is both a heartbreaking indictment of a cruel society and a poetic testament to the millions of forgotten lives ground beneath the heel of apartheid. Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar urban alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his missing son. Special Features Interview with Edie Landau / Ely Landau In Front of the Camera, a promotional film for the American Film Theatre / Gallery of trailers for the American Film Theatre / English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

Near the Arctic Circle, an atomic bomb is detonated. This fearsome experiment disturbs the sleep of a giant rhedosaurus encased in ice over 100-million years and sends it southward on a destructive, deadly rampage! The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a film of firsts. It spawned a new era of atomic-age creature features. It was the first screen adaptation of a work by fantasy fiction titan Ray Bradbury. And it marked the first time Ray Har

Special Edition Up from the forbidden depths comes a Tidal Wave Of Terror! If that sounds like an ad for a Roger Corman production, it is! Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to warn others, no one believes her... or do they? Julie persists in her mission to help the local townspeople, but the closer she gets to unearthing the monster, the more danger awaits! Directed by Wyott Ordung; written by Bill Danch; starring Anne Kimbell, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner, Jonathan Haze. Special features include Full length commentary by Tom Weaver and The Weaver Players; a new interview with author Justin Humphreys on the career of Bob Baker; an archival interview with producer Roger Corman about his early career; original theatrical trailer; re-cut theatrical trailer using restored film elements; slideshow of photos from Mike Barnum; and a full color inserted booklet with essay by Tom Weaver.